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Wow, 2 months went by already! Loads of work has been since then though, as mentioned in the last update I wanted to add sprite data exporting so that you could playback effects buy just uploading the sprite data to the GPU and interpolating between frames for smooth playback. And this is exactly what I’ve managed to do and it works extremely well! This is just an initial proof of concept but now the basics are done and now I know it will work well I can continue to improve and add features to it. Here’s how it works: Sprite Read more

So the last month and a half has been mainly just trying to figure some things out. Lines You’d think that lines would be quite easy to draw but they’re actually a lot more complicated to do properly then you might think. I wanted to update the line rendering in my renderer so that they were more efficient then they current were. They were just using gl lines basically where it’s a lot harder to manage the thickness of the line. The other reason that I wanted to spend some time on it is because I also want to implement Read more

I have uploaded a new alpha version which I hope brings a lot more stability. After the new 3d version I wanted to refactor a lot of the underlying library to try and optimise it more. I’ve spent a long time thinking about the best way to update particles and in the end I think I’ve come up with a reasonably decent way of doing it by having a 3 separate methods depending on the nature of the particle effects being updated. These 3 different scenarios are: Unordered particles For a lot of particle effects you’re not worried about the Read more

Happy to announce that 3d effects are now possible in the latest alpha version of TimelineFX. Isometric mode is also supported which works well for exporting animations. Here’s a simple mushroom cloud explosion I put together and exported – this just wasn’t possible with only 2D effects: So let’s go over some of the new features: New effect options Obviously the option to actually make an effect 3d is there under effect options. When you create a new effect you now have a bunch of new 3d preset emitters to choose from. But also you can convert an existing 2d Read more

I’ve just uploaded the latest version – Alpha 2! This version sees undo implemented which isn’t very exciting but it is a necessary feature to make creating effects a lot more easy if you need to go back to a previous change. I also added a couple of new features over the original version in that you can now preview a revision without actually reverting the the change, and you can now also create a new effect from a revision – handy if you want to branch off to a different version of the effect you’re working on. For some Read more